By Alex Blackwell

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

I admire my wife. Mary Beth is a mother of four children, a practicing Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a brain surgery survivor. However, her current status is she has no status, at least in a virtual sense, because Mary Beth has given up Facebook for Lent.

She made this decision a few days before Ash Wednesday and has stayed true to her Lenten promise ever since. Before Lent, her morning routine consisted of enjoying her coffee while scanning for updates, updating her own status and sharing photographs.

Today Mary Beth still enjoys her morning coffee; she just does it while doing other things.

I get the sense Mary Beth didn’t give up Facebook to deprive herself of... More...